Recently read an article on New Scientist about trails of a new blood test that detects melanoma skin cancer while it’s still in the early stages. As someone who has had skin cancer I think this a great discovery and hopefully will be able to detect these problems earlier so that people do not have […]

Got back home a couple hours ago after completing just over 1200 miles in the last 10 days driving up to Scotland and touring around, odometer started at a mere 500 miles and now at over 1750! Over this journey I met several Tesla owners from the Tesla Owners Group UK and learned a lot […]

Picked up my Tesla Model S from Russell at Reflectology today, the paintwork is at a whole new level now compared from when I collected it from the showroom. The amount of ‘depth’ in the paintwork is simply astounding, you almost get vertigo staring into the bonnet! Four days of hard work have gone into […]

Yesterday I had my Tesla CHAdeMO adaptor delivered, this will be our lifeline when we go on holiday to Scotland in a few weeks time as the furthest north Tesla Super Charger is in Dundee. This adaptor is a serious bit of kit weighing in at about 2.3kg and costing £358. On one end you […]

Finally collected my Tesla Model S from the new Tesla Leeds service centre! Arriving quite early on a bank holiday Monday as there was very little traffic we sat outside patiently waiting for the store to open. After waiting 3 months since ordering the car what’s another 30 minutes? The wait had certainly been interesting, […]

In 1994 your phone would have looked like this. If someone had told you that in 23 years time your phone would: • Be thinner than a pencil • Be 1000x more powerful than your 486 computer • Able to instantly play music from over a million CD’s • Play videos at 24x the resolution […]

I have been considering switching to an electric car for quite some time but been waiting on more news on upcoming models, having seen more finalized information on the Tesla Model 3 I realized it’s not likely to work for my needs and no other companies really have anything that will suit our use. I’ve […]

Today I finally got around to fitting my Nest 3rd gen thermostat, ran into a few issues with the wiring as I was under the assumption that it was clever enough to not need the wires to the common connections for the central heating and hot water if they were the same as the main […]

Having just switched from Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 to Update 3 and updated our compiler from Intel Composer 2016.2 to 2017.1 we got an error C4772: C++ Error C4772: #import referenced a type from a missing type library; ‘__missing_type__’ used as a placeholder The code included two type libraries Common and Logger, the Logger […]

Today I built the raised beds for our poly tunnel, these were made of scaffolding boards and bolted together with M10 x 120mm coach screws from UK Fixings in Sheffield. The coach screws required 7mm pilot holes to ensure that they did not split the scaffold boards, after that they were pretty easy to […]